Remote Incident Manager Jobs
Remote incident manager jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams hiring for on-call coordination, post-incident reviews, and real-time response ownership. Industries hiring remotely include technology, financial services, and cloud infrastructure. Employers hiring right now include Humana, Empyrean Benefit Solutions, and CFC. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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The Senior Problem, Incident, and Event Management Engineer is responsible for advancing enterprise event correlation, observability, and incident detection capabilities to proactively identify and mitigate service disruptions before user impact. This role specializes in leveraging platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and ServiceNow to aggregate, correlate, and operationalize data across multiple systems to drive timely escalation and resolution of critical incidents.
This position plays a key role in evolving from reactive incident response to data-driven, predictive operations, utilizing CMDB-driven context, criticality tiering, and advanced analytics to prioritize and escalate issues with significant business impact.
Key Responsibilities
Event Correlation & Observability Engineering
- Design, configure, and continuously improve event correlation rules and alerting strategies across platforms such as Splunk ITSI and Dynatrace
- Integrate data from multiple monitoring, application, and infrastructure sources to create meaningful, actionable events
- Normalize and enrich event data using standardized fields and metadata to improve correlation accuracy and reduce noise
- Drive reduction of false positives and duplicate alerts through correlation, aggregation, and suppression strategies
Dashboarding & Data Visualization
- Develop and maintain operational and executive dashboards in Splunk and other reporting tools
- Translate technical telemetry into clear, business-aligned insights, highlighting service health, degradation, and emerging risks
- Partner with command center, TOC, and incident teams to ensure dashboards support real-time decision making and escalation
Incident Detection & Escalation
- Leverage correlated event data and observability insights to trigger proactive incident identification prior to user-reported impact
- Apply criticality tiering and CMDB data to assess business impact and drive proper prioritization and escalation paths
ServiceNow Integration & ITSM Enablement
- Partner with ServiceNow stakeholders to improve workflows, reporting, and automation capabilities
CMDB & Data-Driven Decisioning
- Leverage CMDB relationships and service mapping where available to enrich event data with application, infrastructure, and business context
- Utilize service ownership, business criticality, and operational hours data to inform prioritization decisions
- Partner with CMDB and service mapping teams to improve data quality and completeness
Trend Analysis & Continuous Improvement
- Analyze patterns across incidents, alerts, and events to identify systemic issues and opportunities for improvement
- Partner with Problem Management to eliminate recurring issues through structural fixes
- Drive improvements in monitoring coverage, alert quality, and detection speed
- Contribute to a shift toward predictive, AIOps-driven operations
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
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- 3–5+ years of experience in Incident, Event, or Problem Management
- Hands-on experience with Splunk (preferably ITSI) and Dynatrace or similar observability platforms
- Experience building dashboards, reports, and analytics to support operational decision-making
- Experience with ServiceNow ITSM, including incident lifecycle management and reporting
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to correlate data across multiple systems and platforms
- Experience working with event correlation, alerting strategies, or AIOps concepts
- Ability to assess business impact using priority models, criticality tiers, and service context
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
Preferred Qualifications
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- Experience with CMDB, service mapping, or application dependency mapping
- Exposure to enterprise monitoring ecosystems (e.g., APM, synthetic monitoring, infrastructure monitoring)
- Experience supporting command center, TOC, or major incident management environments
- Knowledge of ITIL frameworks and service management best practices
- Experience with automation or scripting (Python, PowerShell, or similar)
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field or equal experience
- ITIL v5 certification
- Previous experience in the health care industry
Additional Information:
Limited Geography Remote - This is a remote position but located within a specific geography.
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:
At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$89,000 - $121,400 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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Who's Hiring
- Humana3

- Empyrean Benefit Solutions2

- CFC1

- Abacus1
- Airbnb1

Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software6
- Hospitality & Tourism2
- Retail1
- Law & Legal Services1
- Construction & Real Estate1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote incident manager jobs.
- 3 or more years of experience managing IT or operational incidents in a production environment
- ITIL 4 Foundation certification or equivalent service management framework knowledge
- Proficiency with incident management platforms such as PagerDuty, ServiceNow, or Jira Service Management
- Strong verbal communication skills for leading war-room bridge calls under pressure
- Experience writing and presenting post-incident reviews and root cause analyses
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Incident Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote incident manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience and apply directly without sorting through mixed location results.
Show your async communication skills
Remote incident manager roles live and die on written communication. Include examples of incident summaries, blameless postmortems, or runbooks you authored, because remote employers read these as proof you can coordinate response without a war room.
Highlight your on-call toolchain experience
Call out specific tools you have used for alerting, triage, and escalation, such as PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or VictorOps. Remote teams assume you can operate these independently from the start, so naming them directly removes a common screening hesitation.
Prepare for remote incident simulations in interviews
Distributed engineering teams often run a live or tabletop incident scenario during interviews. Practice walking through severity classification, stakeholder communication cadence, and postmortem facilitation out loud, because remote hiring managers judge your process as much as your technical knowledge.
Target companies with documented remote culture
Look for organizations that publish their incident response playbooks, engineering blogs, or postmortem culture publicly. Companies that share this work externally have built the async infrastructure that makes remote incident management sustainable rather than stressful.
Remote Incident Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote incident manager job?
Target companies with distributed engineering teams, because those organizations build incident response processes that work asynchronously by default. Remote employers screen for written communication skills, comfort with async tools like Slack and PagerDuty, and the ability to coordinate cross-functional response without in-person escalation. Candidates who can show documented runbooks, blameless postmortem experience, or on-call rotation ownership stand out.
Which companies hire remote incident managers?
Companies hiring remote incident managers right now include Humana, Empyrean Benefit Solutions, and CFC, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first technology firms and distributed SaaS teams account for the largest share of these openings, alongside cloud services and fintech organizations managing 24/7 uptime obligations across time zones.
Can you get a remote incident manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level incident manager roles are harder to land because employers expect you to triage and coordinate independently from day one. You can open the door by earning an ITIL Foundation certification, building familiarity with on-call tools like PagerDuty or Opsgenie, and documenting any helpdesk, NOC, or DevOps support work that involved incident triage, even informally.
Do you need a degree for remote incident manager jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers care more about hands-on incident response experience and certifications like ITIL or CompTIA than a formal degree. Demonstrating that you can own a major incident from detection through postmortem, communicate clearly under pressure in writing, and improve response processes over time carries more weight than your educational background alone.
Which industries hire the most remote incident managers?
The sectors hiring the most remote incident managers are Technology & Software, Hospitality & Tourism, and Retail, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These industries rely on distributed teams and continuous service availability, making remote incident managers essential for coordinating response across engineers, stakeholders, and vendors in different time zones.
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